Well, that was interesting. As I mentioned before I am playing a Charlie Sheen-esque coked out fashion designer. I rehearsed today’s scene in my hotel room about a thousand times. I had a bunch of super neat ticks and gestures that I thought were perfect for a coked out fashion designer. After the first take, the director approaches me (he is super nice) and says, “Don’t forget. You are in mourning here. You are incredibly sad. You have the whole first half of the show to act cracked out. Make sure we see how sad and vulnerable you are here. Let’s go again right away.” Terrific. I just spent three days practicing how to play this guy in this scene and it is ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREES in the wrong direction of what they want.

The good news is, I now have a minute and a half to figure out how to do it completely different. We did the scene three or four times and after each take the director seemed pleased and then we broke for lunch. That was scary. By the way, D’Onofrio and Erbe are the freaking coolest and NICEST.

More of the same scene after lunch. Different angles, shots, lens sizes etc… I’ll either check back in later on or tomorrow.

 jj